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Kamala has 1000 delegates secured -- nm - budice Jul 22, 12:22 1
- Actblue has surpassed $100M raised in the past 24 hours -- nm - decline Jul 22, 12:41
I have to say I'm really impressed with how quickly the party has coalesced around Harris. Basically all of the serious other options have endorsed - pmb Jul 22, 12:20 4
- There was moments, but those moments passed quickly. -- nm - budice Jul 22, 12:24
- I'm with you. I'd have guessed that there was quite a bit of maneuvering done before the announcement to get everyone in line, but 1) the lack of - prayformojo 🐵 Jul 22, 12:24 1
  - That letter was a lovely piece of work too. It set up the following Kamala endorsement tweet chefs 💋 -- nm - con_carne Jul 22, 12:27
- teach them how to say goodbye -- nm - oblique Jul 22, 12:23
Deadpool Premiere in 3 hours -- (pic) - budice Jul 22, 12:10 [Attachment] 2
- when can reviews start dropping? -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jul 22, 12:19
- ******MEGA-TWITCH****** -- nm - LFG Jul 22, 12:11
there it is: Harris “advisers” want her to bring on Obama campaigner David Plouffe -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 22, 12:07 2
- What a Plouffe. -- nm - LFG Jul 22, 12:07 1
  - A fluffy cat spread out in the middle of the floor. -- nm - . Jul 22, 12:34
dusting off the old “Michelle Obama has never said one good thing about America” line and just changing the name I see -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 22, 12:01 8
- I thought early voting was bad. why are we holding up VOTE EARLY signs? -- nm - ☀️ mandy chem ☀️ Jul 22, 12:12 5
  - Trump's campaign has actually come around on this and is pushing it hard -- (link) - oblique Jul 22, 12:15 3
    - this is so, so good for pollworkers honestly. unless voters think he means "vote early in the morning." -- nm - ☀️ mandy chem ☀️ Jul 22, 12:22 2
      - there's a bad underbelly to it also though -- (link) - oblique Jul 22, 12:24 1
        
        ugh pollwatchers are legit the worst. I can't even go out of the precinct to get a pepsi if I have a republican watcher. - ☀️ mandy chem ☀️ Jul 22, 12:26
  - They realized a percentage of their voters missed the last election with Covid? -- nm - LFG Jul 22, 12:14
- she should smile more -- nm - oblique Jul 22, 12:05
- Women. Am I right? -- nm - LFG Jul 22, 12:03
doors and corners -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jul 22, 11:58 2
- Stay away from de aqua! -- nm - Beryllium Jul 22, 12:06
- Boats and hoes -- nm - con_carne Jul 22, 12:02
i have to work with an intern named "Aryan" today. pronunciation level: difficult -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 22, 11:29 2
- I have several students with this name. They all pronounce it Are-E-N -- nm - Volnelk Jul 22, 11:43
- "Can I speak to the B-Ryan?" -- nm - Reagen Jul 22, 11:38
How did no one tell me there is Little Debbie ice cream?! Oatmeal Creme Pie and Nutter Butter! -- nm - sycor Jul 22, 11:24
Neither here nor there, but Kamala looks about 10 years younger than her actual age - prayformojo 🐵 Jul 22, 11:21 9
- right??? -- nm - ☀️ mandy chem ☀️ Jul 22, 12:13
- ST, in general, so rapidly coming around to Kamala has made my day— -- nm - Trending Jul 22, 11:28 4
  - I don't like the process but I'm ok with Kamala -- nm - eag Jul 22, 11:39
  - ST is fine, towards the election moderates and independents need to be swayed -- nm - budice Jul 22, 11:30 2
    - Well—ST is almost fully on the NOT TRUMP train…so now, yeah-but Biden stepping down was a bit of a sticking point around here -- nm - Trending Jul 22, 12:19 1
      - ST don't like to be any kind of -ist, let alone ageist. It turned out the broken clock was right and ageism and reality shook hands. - con_carne Jul 22, 12:22
- #BDC -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 22, 11:21 2
  - (black dont crack fwiw) -- nm - budice Jul 22, 11:27 1
    - Bill Burr has a great bit about lotion and it’s worth looking up because of this— -- nm - Trending Jul 22, 11:29
Haha after melting down completely last night, Stephen Miller has recalibrated with new messaging - Jovian Jul 22, 11:18 [Attachment] 2
- Ok whatever Pauly Shore -- nm* - eag Jul 22, 11:43
- from twitter: "God let him live just so he could lose to a black woman" -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 22, 11:21
Jesus, Republicans, stop making her look cool -- (link) - Reagen Jul 22, 11:12 [Image] 13
- My Ravens board is full of guys calling her a whore. It's disgusting. They think it's just fact that she traded sex for promotions. -- nm - Inigo Jul 22, 11:42 1
  - well for a crowd that would definitely require women to blow them just to keep their job, there can't be any other way for a woman to advance - zeitgeist Jul 22, 12:20
- And stop asking Montel Williams about a fling he had with Kamala 20 yrs ago -- nm - eag Jul 22, 11:17
- They really want to make sexual history part of the debate? -- nm - Dano Jul 22, 11:17 5
  - Donny slut shamed Hillary over her husband's dalliances while having thug lawyers pay off his hookers and rape victims -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 22, 12:23
  - Women get a different set of standards than do men, especially according to Republicans, and that's a sad fact. -- nm - con_carne Jul 22, 11:38
  - It’s a fascinating approach. “We know ours don’t care about much worse, but some of yours might care about consenting adults…” -- nm - David Jul 22, 11:19 2
    - It is men's job to do what they want and women's job to stop men from doing what they want*, David. - LFG Jul 22, 11:34 1
      - Right - Andie Jul 22, 12:10
- it probably helps that she wasn't married to a former president who cucked her on nat'l tv for two years - hollywood big shot Jul 22, 11:16
- Laura Loomer is such a hateful person—why does anyone follow her. The things she says are always so rough and mean -- nm - Trending Jul 22, 11:16 1
  - Because she found like minded people into today's Republican party. And they, within her. -- nm - Jovian Jul 22, 11:20
- Odds Laura Loomer has bragged about blowing a married man: 100%. - David Jul 22, 11:13
Btw, SimHoops players will looooove CFB25. - David Jul 22, 10:59 2
- and vice versa -- nm - rollo Jul 22, 11:57 1
  - Yup. The skills translate. - David Jul 22, 12:22
Any room painting tips ST can't paint without? - JaxSean Jul 22, 10:59 20
- Paint...at least two cans for that job. -- nm - . Jul 22, 12:29
- don't try to one coat it, it rarely works, give a quick coat with thinned paint, then paint for reals. much better coverage -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 22, 12:25
- those paint rollers with a paint storage tube don't actually suc. makes the work go much faster. -- nm - ☀️ mandy chem ☀️ Jul 22, 11:16
- Avoid painting the carpet. -- nm - LFG Jul 22, 11:15 3
  - and don't paint the ceiling with your wall color -- nm - oblique Jul 22, 11:16 2
    - I don't always agree with this. -- nm - ☀️ mandy chem ☀️ Jul 22, 12:14 1
      - well, you might do it on purpose. Mine is never on purpose - oblique Jul 22, 12:15
- I like the Home RenoVision DIY channel -- (link) - Max Jul 22, 11:11 [youtube]
- Dano has done his WHOLE HOUSE - this is what he says -- (link) - Pippy Jul 22, 11:03 [Backboard] 8
  - I don't understand the "Learn to cut in without tape" part? What are "cut in brushes?" -- nm - JaxSean Jul 22, 11:20 6
    - brushes with angled bristles (like a 45 degree angle instead of horizontal brushes) -- nm - oblique Jul 22, 11:30 1
      - Yup. You start about 2" from the edge and as you brush you slowly angle in towards the edge. With a steady hand you can avoid a lot of taping. -- nm - Krusty Jul 22, 11:48
    - The parts around the edges that you don’t get with the roller. -- nm - Volnelk Jul 22, 11:24 3
      - Thanks. I'm watching Max's link now and he explained it ("cut and roll the wall"). -- nm - JaxSean Jul 22, 11:42 2
        
        Cut in sections and not the whole room. You want to roll when the cut is still wet so it blends in nicely. -- nm - Krusty Jul 22, 11:50 1
        
        Yeah, I already f*cked that up. :D (Should've asked this last night before I started.) -- nm - JaxSean Jul 22, 12:36
  - the cleaning the wall piece of advice is great. -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jul 22, 11:05
- Pay someone to do it - oblique Jul 22, 11:02
- One trick I learned is that if you have to use a brush, but don't want that to not match what was rolled, you can dab with a foam brush -- (edited) - sycor Jul 22, 11:01 1
  - Corners and edges by both bases/molding I could see that happening. I'll get some foam brushes (I only have bristle brushes). -- nm - JaxSean Jul 22, 11:21
Random weekend weirdness. A family we know. Their oldest daughter is getting married. They were all over Facebook posting Venmo QR codes to "buy her - oblique Jul 22, 10:45 4
- SIL saw a car of a wedding party and they had signs in their car on how to e-transfer money to buy the bride a drink - Beaker 🍺 Jul 22, 10:52 2
  - I see this a lot (cars with "venmo/cashapp/paypal $" for graduates, weddings, etc. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 22, 10:55 1
    - scammers are now scrambling to get clone pages to spoof venmo and get your account access.... -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 22, 12:29
- yeah, that's odd -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jul 22, 10:46
oh yeah, Olympics start this week -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 22, 10:40 2
- Deadpool and SDCC too -- nm - budice Jul 22, 10:49
- Thank God. Let’s go Mongolia! -- nm - Loyola Jul 22, 10:42
Interim (one hopes) H4P logo is out -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 22, 10:33
Los Angeles County Superior Court, the largest trial court in America, closed all 36 of its courthouses today following "unprecedented" ransomware attack -- (link*) - budice Jul 22, 10:30 4
- ladies and gentlemen, my client! -- nm - ☀️ mandy chem ☀️ Jul 22, 11:19
- is this a new way Trump is trying to get funds? I would not put it past him :(((((( -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 22, 10:33
- malware bricked "every electronic platform containing court data," both internal and external court systems -- nm - budice Jul 22, 10:32
- shoulda used Crowdstrike -- nm - decline Jul 22, 10:32
nancy on board! -- (link*) - mud Jul 22, 10:28 [Attachment] 3
- Good thing this train had a caboose, or Nancy would have missed it. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 22, 11:49
- Nice. Now let's get Jeffries and the Obamas on board. -- nm - Turd Ferguson Jul 22, 10:35
- womp womp -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 22, 10:30
oh yeah, dead ringer -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 22, 10:17
Im gonna throw out this name for VP Adam Kizsinger - eag Jul 22, 10:08 9
- He is in no way a moderate unless all it takes to be a moderate these days is to not support the violent overthrow of the government. -- nm - Dano Jul 22, 10:53 2
  - they'll prolly give him and/or Liz Cheney a speaking slot on Project 2025 at the convention -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 22, 11:10
  - Sadly that is what a moderate republican legislator is today. -- nm - pmb Jul 22, 11:08
- You can not appeal to republicans by meeting them halfway. also, Lieberman didn't help Gore -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 22, 10:31 1
  - *snicker* Dont I know it -- nm - Robert Hur Jul 22, 10:33
- He's a republican so definitely not an option. -- nm - Krusty Jul 22, 10:27
- I like him as a republican, but he is definitely not a moderate on policy. -- nm - pmb Jul 22, 10:15
- With Senate split, wouldn't tie votes be a little nerve wrecking how the VP would vote? -- nm - VMan Jul 22, 10:14
- Aaron Sorkin? -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 22, 10:12
Another good B&W from the color era: The Elephant Man. -- nm - mara Jul 22, 10:07 1
- Sure, but is it anyone's fave? A difficult watch to say the least. -- nm* - con_carne Jul 22, 10:11
yes please. please make this the messaging you all go with: "JD Vance says that Kamala Harris is a “childless cat lady” who is “miserable” with her - Jovian Jul 22, 10:05 8
- What the heck is the right's obsession with childless women with cats? They seem to think it's huge insult. -- nm - . Jul 22, 12:27
- Then why do her (step) kids call her Momala? -- nm - Beryllium Jul 22, 10:23 1
  - love. It's All You Need, y'know -- nm - mud Jul 22, 10:27
- conversely, “Vote Kamala and you never have to think about Donald Trump again” is pretty persuasive stuff -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 22, 10:20
- As previously stated, his wiki page confirms he thinks people without kids should have less say in how democracy functions. -- nm - sycor Jul 22, 10:18 3
  - He's been married for 10 years and only has 3 kids. You do the math. Someone is on birth control. They are obligated to have more kids right?! -- nm - Pippy Jul 22, 11:02 1
    - maybe he's not getting any, donny can relate -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 22, 12:33
  - this used to be my argument when attempting to point out the danger of DJT. 'Look I dont even have kids! You do! You should be - Jovian Jul 22, 10:22
SITWAP? Whitmer has “no interest in leaving the state” for a VP role -- (link) - znufrii Jul 22, 10:04
hey Beryl, why doesn't Flickr have MFA? got called out on Smashin Security over it. i thought you worked for them.. but i am constantly wrong. -- nm - colin Jul 22, 10:00 1
- I do. But I don't know the answer to that. I do know that SmugMug, the product of ours I directly work on, does have MFA. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 22, 10:22
LIR: Fave b & w movie is Seven Samurai. But man, some great mentions on B2. - con_carne Jul 22, 09:57 1
- (The Criterion Collection release from the 2000s is sometimes mentioned as one of the all time DVD commentaries) -- nm - con_carne Jul 22, 10:04
Twisters got just over $81 million this weekend domestically. Not the $90 million I thought, but still very good. One interesting note. -- (edited) - Inigo Jul 22, 09:56 4
- People who said Zaslav would be better than Kilar should never speak on anything media-related ever again. -- nm - David Jul 22, 10:05 3
  - what’s Jason running these days? -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 22, 10:13 2
    - Roblox -- nm - David Jul 22, 11:11
    - definitely not a sleepaway camp. -- nm - Jovian Jul 22, 10:33
Crowdstrike is still very much going on. But here's an organization that was saved, in an unprecedented twist, by DNS -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 22, 09:56 [mastodon] 1
- It's always DNS -- nm - oblique Jul 22, 10:03
Ugh. Here's a wrestling update that will bum out all of you. -- (link) - David Jul 22, 09:51 4
- Im gonna say that looks a little bit more than badly damaged. -- nm - Jovian Jul 22, 09:56 1
  - word -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jul 22, 09:58
- Um - who's his dad? -- nm - Turd Ferguson Jul 22, 09:53 1
  - Here's the story. -- (link) - David Jul 22, 10:00
My friend just read on Facebook that Biden is secretly dead already. I'm sure this is true. -- nm - amandaphone Jul 22, 09:48 7
- Oh there is a LOT of stupid running rampant atm. My brother was just sent the most ridiculous thing from sister.. - Jovian Jul 22, 09:53
- I can believe certain ailments and symptoms are being withheld. Likely come out at some later date, or a book release. -- nm - budice Jul 22, 09:50
- RIP to a real one -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 22, 09:49
- Ooooo...so who's playing the Kevin Klein role? -- nm - JD Jul 22, 09:49 3
  - I once caught a fish *this big* -- nm - Subversive Jul 22, 10:11
  - here ya go -- (pic) - Turd Ferguson Jul 22, 09:50 [Attachment]
  - Kevin Kline. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 22, 09:50
Delta just messaged me that their big announcement for July 22nd is on hold. Thanks, Cloudstrike! -- nm - David Jul 22, 09:42 1
- Meanwhile the L.A. County court system is shut down due to a ransomware attack - they say. -- nm - Meg Jul 22, 09:51
Also Mop: Regarding your previous comments on Microsoft. It was nice to see them releasing a Crowdstrike fix utility to help customers recover -- (link) - oblique Jul 22, 09:36 3
- Microsoft blames EU for outage. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Jul 22, 09:41 2
  - 2009 agreement made to avoid a European competition investigation, had allowed multiple security providers to install software at the kernel level 😏 - JD Jul 22, 09:48 1
    - There's no question that Crowdstrike played outside the kernel sandbox and the world suffered for it. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 22, 10:21
lol meanwhile in Congress. MAGA Republicans having fun: ""You are full of sh*t": GOP lawmaker rips into Secret Service director - Jovian Jul 22, 09:35 10
- So like - is there absolutely no decorum left in Congress at this point? We just say whatever we want to whoever we want? - Turd Ferguson Jul 22, 09:52 6
  - When they're too prim and proper, people wish they would butt heads. And when they butt heads, people wish they were more prim and proper. -- nm - con_carne Jul 22, 10:07 2
    - I don't want prim and proper - but I think we can do better than telling witnesses they're full of shit. nm - Turd Ferguson Jul 22, 10:19
    - like Fetterman wearing shorts and a hoodie to work, “decorum” can too often be used as a gatekeeper. give me indecorous but principled over a polite - hollywood big shot Jul 22, 10:15
  - Yep. Pretty much. -- nm - Jovian Jul 22, 09:55
  - Charles Sumner was beaten within an inch of his life on the floor of the senate -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 22, 09:54 1
    - Wow!! A caning on the senate - I mean, I'd be down to cane some people in the Senate. -- nm - Turd Ferguson Jul 22, 09:56
- (Secret Service has always been even more Republican than the FBI, and they know this) -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 22, 09:48 2
  - But there’s a woman in charge now, can’t have that can we? -- nm - znufrii Jul 22, 09:56 1
    - in charge and multiple other agents with vaginas running around. the horror -- nm - Jovian Jul 22, 09:57
Here's an Australian track athlete getting the news she's going to the Olympics. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Jul 22, 09:33 [youtube] 2
- “You’re going but if another athlete complains well enough, you may not be going” -- nm - Loyola Jul 22, 09:38 1
  - "Do you understand." "I'm going to the Olympics." "Basically*, yes." - LFG Jul 22, 09:39

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